Daniel Boucher

Scholarly focus is Buddhist studies, particularly the early development of the cluster of Indian
Buddhist movements called the Mahayana and their transmission to China in the first few centuries of
the Common Era. Related interests include translation as a religious genre, with special focus on
the earliest translations of Buddhist texts into Chinese; Buddhist Middle Indo-Aryan, particularly
the role of Gandhari Prakrit in the earliest transmission of Buddhism to Central Asia and China;
art historical, epigraphical, and archeological materials as sources for the study of religion; and
history, theory, and methods in the academic study of religion.

Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahāyāna: A Study and Translation
of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra. Studies in the Buddhist Traditions. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008).

Articles:

"The Pratītyasamutpādagāthā and Its Role in the Medieval Cult of the Relics," The
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 14.1 (1991) : 1-27.